Jim McCormick

Our IDP rankings below are shown as an average of two analysts' rankings: Mike Clay, ESPN Insider fantasy football writer, and Jim McCormick, who has provided rankings for ESPN for many years. They will rank 50 players at each of three positions: defensive line, linebacker and defensive back.

Editor's Picks

Fantasy football rankings from Matthew Berry, Field Yates, Mike Clay, Eric Karabell and Tristan Cockcroft for Week 2 of the NFL season.

Players not ranked by either Mike or Jim will receive a ranking value of 60 for the purposes of the composite rankings. In the charts below, you will see an "NR" to denote a player who was not ranked by that individual.

Note: Rankings have been updated to remove players from the Thursday's Texans-Bengals game in order to provide the most updated and useful rankings for the remaining NFL games.

Because scoring systems can vary greatly in IDP formats, these rankings will be based on the following scoring criteria: